The Bureau hosts meetings and events all over campus at UT Austin. Some of our events are hybrid. We try to maintain a regular meeting place in WCP 4.120.

Open Lab Hours:

M/T/Th: 10am to 1pm
Wednesdays noon to 1pm

The room may be locked. To get a key, contact someone from the Bureau Collective's Organizational Team.

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  • Aerial sattelite view of the Chino Mine in New Mexico

    The Land Torn Asunder: Stories from Copper Country

    Oct. 13th at 3:30pmDustin Edwards, SDSULocation: Eastwoods Room (Texas Union 2.102) Dr. Edwards’s work focuses on digital rhetoric, material infrastructures, and environmental justice; and his talk explores what archival extraction means for…

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  • Carceral Edgelands Opening Event

    To inaugurate the Carceral Edgelands season of fieldwork we’ve invited anthropologists, writers, and photographers to help set the tone for the project with a set of short presentations. We’ll hear readings that…

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  • Acoustic Phenomenology: The Hidden Sounds of Austin

    Monday, November 1, noon to 3pm (PAR 102)
 Bill Fontana, known for his pioneering work with sound, will conduct a three-hour workshop, in conjunction with his commission for Butler Sound Gallery at the Blanton Museum of Art. Organized…

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  • Decorative image with "atmospherics" title and image of a jokey graph depicting cold, comfort, and hot.

    poetix.0.4 – atmospherics

    As part of its spring Poetix Series, the Bureau introduces the theme of atmospherics. On March 22nd we will begin this thematic focus with readings by Katie Stewart and Marina Peterson. We…

    BEE meet, Events

  • poetix.0.3

    folded paper, needles, waxed cord – a workshop in simple bookmaking. Monday, February 22 at 1:30pm.postponed until Monday, March 1 at 1:30pm For the third installation of the poetix series we’re holding…

    BEE meet

  • POETIX series, Spring 2021

    “X’s and I’s: Ethnography Without a Subject” We will begin 2021 with a 4-part series coordinated by Brent Crosson and Megan Gette: “POETIX” — where poetry meets the ethnographic. The Bureau for Experimental Ethnography —…

    BEE meet, Events
  • Decorative banner for the curatorial dreaming session

    ‘Curatorial Dreaming’ Session

    Issues of representation & display in the curation of “difficult” objects in the aftermath of violence In place of our regular BEE meet, we’re sponsoring this round table discussion on Monday, November…

    BEE meet, Events

  • BEE meet – November 2, 2020

    1. Ghosts, Memory, History Our first cycle of films is titled Ghosts, Memory, History in response to films by Lois Patiño, Linda Paganelli, and Alan Klima. The first two documentaries expand our…

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  • 100s for Lesley

    The Bureau for Experimental Ethnography is hosting an ex-situ project organized by Yoke Sum Wong and Craig Campbell. With the much-anticipated publication of Diary of a Detour (Duke University Press, 2020), we…

    Call for Papers, Projects, or Submissions

  • Critical Media Practices

    Critical Media Practices graduate seminar for the Spring of 2021. This workshop-format seminar builds theoretical foundations for encounters with sensible and sensuous worlds. Through weekly readings, screenings, experiences, and group exercises, we…

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